Tobacco Auction Floors In Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe s tobacco auction floors are slowly becoming white elephants as farmers are increasingly opting for contract sales it has emerged.

Tobacco auction floors in zimbabwe.

1994 construction of boka tobacco floors originally thought to be the largest tobacco trading facility in the world. According to a report in the state run daily newspaper the herald an estimated 97 of the tobacco delivered came from the contract crop with just 3 being sold on the auction floors. Local tobacco growers have expressed fear of being exposed to the deadly covid 19 when the usually congested tobacco auction floors open for the marketing season next month 263chat business has. 1994 saw the board reconstituted to cater for the interests of all classes of different types of tobacco growers virginia burley oriental and dark.

Mrs chinamasa said the licensed. Google user 25 04 2019 11 51. 1998 commencement of tobacco growing and roll out of input scheme to small holder farmers in chiendambuya village 2013 posthumously awarded as one of the most influential entreprenuers pre independence at empretec s 20th awards. Premier tobacco auction floors ptf were the fourth floors to be opened after tobacco sales floor tsf boka tobacco auction floor btf and millenium tobacco auction floor mtf respectively on 15 february 2012.

Statistics from timb shows that auction floors received only seven million kilogrammes of the golden leaf valued at us 19 4 million way below 140 million kg valued us 339 5 million sold via contract floors. This year there were 31 contract floors registered to buy tobacco. According to data sourced from the tobacco industry marketing board timb deliveries to action floors only constituted 14 3 in 2018 compared to an all time high of 76 8 about 15 years ago. This season timb licensed four auction floors tobacco sales floor boka tobacco auction floors millennium tobacco floors and premier tobacco auction floors.

This year there were 31 contract floors registered to buy tobacco. Established in 1936 through the tobacco marketing and levy act the auction floor system was for years the only platform where. Sponsorship of the zimbabwe republic police transport and logistics soccer league and tournament.